Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781305627482
Author: Carlos Coronel, Steven Morris
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2, Problem 19RQ

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Sparse data:

  • Sparse data is generally considered to have high percentage of data but will not contain any value in it.
  • The values that could hold large volume of storage space in a file includes the value such as “NULL”, empty, “N/A”.
  • It is considered as the case where the number of attributes present in the table is considered to be very large but the instance of the value occurring in them is considered to be low...

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